Fritz Springmeier

Christ as secular or religious Millenniarism? If religious, then are we not characterizingCommunism as religious, because the man who wrote the Social Goals for the FCC wasCommunist party member Henry F. Ward, who was professor of Christian ethics at UnionTheological Seminary in NY. Ward believed that Jesus' Kingdom of God "was a collectiveconcept embracing the whole social life of man on earth." 9 Ward saw his position in theFCC as a chance to effect the collectivist Kingdom of God in American Society.Ward's student the Mason and socialist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, future FCCpresident, embraced Ward's socialist views.(See chap. 2.8) Later Oxnam responded tocritics by claiming he departed from Ward's position in 1958, but Edgar C. Bundy's bookApostles of Deceit, p. 227 tells a different story.THE STREAM OF SECULAR MILLENIAL HOPESThe stream of secular Millenial hopes such as Fabian Socialism, Communism, et. al.have been part of the revolutionary forces unleased by llluminism. This Author has beenrequested to diagram how all these groups and people relate, however, to do so wouldbe a meaningless jumble of interconnecting lines. It is most appropriate to understandthese groups and people as moving parts of a stream unleased by and fed by thellluminati and Illumined groups. Two stream illustrations are provided, one giving someof the groups the other prominent people.What does this have to do with Christianity and the One-World-Religion? Socialism(aka Communism) with its secular Millenial Hope was the real religion of the leaders ofthe National Council of Churches of Christ. In the U.S. over 100 NCC leaders hadaffiliations with communist-front organizations including a number of prominant ones whowere Communist party members. 10 The NCC secular Millenial hope is illustrated in apolicy statement issued by the NCC's General Board in 1965:"We have pushed our machines with their mechanical minds and vast powersoutward into space among the stars and inward into the secrets of matter and men, andinto the fields, the factories, the mines and the market place. A world without hunger,nakedness or human beasts of burden is now a real possibility, no longer a visionarydream." 11THE MAN-MADE MILLENIUM OF LIBERATION THEOLOGYPerhaps nothing more vividly illustrates how the New World Order can use religion tomanipulate people to fight for their own enslavement as liberation theology.Liberation Theology (or more accurately Liberation Mythology) holds that men willestablish a new Jerusalem. Liberation Theology strategies for accomplishing the NewEarth vary from teacher to teacher, but can be basically summarized by saying that theprinciples of the Bavarian llluminati and Karl Marx are to be put into practice throughrevolution (liberation struggles) to create the New Earth, the Kingdom of God.WHO BEGAN LIBERATION THEOLOGYLiberation Theology was started by various ministers who were Marxists, socialists andOne-Worlders. The roots of the movement began with the men who preached the socialgospel, such as socialist clergyman Dr. Walter Rauschenbusch, a crucial influence on theFederal Council of Churches. It began first with the Protestants and then spread to theCatholics, especially the Jesuits.